If you had the good fortune to read National Review in the 1970s when it featured great writers and thinkers you would have encountered James Burnham
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07/10/2020 5:19:06 PM PDT by
Pelham
To: schurmann; ek_hornbeck; Ohioan; wardaddy; Travis McGee; SunkenCiv; Salamander; Yaelle
2 posted on
07/10/2020 5:21:13 PM PDT by
Pelham
( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
To: Pelham
“... provoking British academic Binoy Kampmark to label Burnham as the first neoconservative.
A technicality. Burnham made the journey, but he was by no means “neocon”. He was often right, occasionally wrong, and always challenging. He provided the framework for people like Joe Sobran, Paul Gottfried, Sam Francis, and others who ended up being right about pretty much everything.
He would not be welcome at National Review in the Current Year. That goes for much of the conservative movement until about 1995.
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07/10/2020 5:39:50 PM PDT by
cdcdawg
(Don't care. Still voting for Trump.)
To: Pelham
Burnham gave the impression of being highly educated and of having arrived at conservative views through experience. His book Suicide of the West made a deep impression on me.
To: Pelham
Read his book “Suicide of the West” written in 1964, with the subtitle “ the definitive analysis of the pathology of liberalism”. The writing was on the wall then, he saw it and put it in a book. Prophetic.
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07/11/2020 5:42:21 AM PDT by
john drake
(Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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